Tea party lives

Tea party lives
Even columnist Paul Mulshine can’t resist taking pot shots at the tea party. His recent column “It’s starting to look like the tea party’s in the bag” (Aug. 16) discusses political differences among local tea party groups, and then concludes with: “And the rest is history — as is the tea party movement in New Jersey.”

In New Jersey ,of all places, the phrase “taxed enough already” resonates with more than a few concerned citizens. The steady drumbeat of potshots by liberal politicians and The Star-Ledger writers is unlikely to dampen the effort by tea partiers to restore fiscal sanity, free markets and limited government to the country we all love. Joseph Smith, West Caldwell

Bias and sexism
I’m compelled to rebut your knucklehead weekly award to Teresa Scalon, Miss America, 2011. I think she misspoke and meant to say that the cover of Newsweek magazine with Michele Bachmann reeked with bias, not sexism. (But sometimes the two can go hand in hand.) Patricia Sweeney, Middlesex